A Stay-at-home Dad’s Restaurant In An Alternate World

tting themselves in trouble.
Things like this were pretty common in Chaos City, and the Gray Temple had more urgent matters to attend to, so the owners of those shops had to grin and bear it more often than not.

There was a bang when the sword met the door.
The door remained intact; the sword caromed off and the impact sent him staggering back.
Gabriel stared at the door, shocked.

Devoe’s eyes widened.
“What the hell?!” He turned to Gabriel.
“Quit fooling around and slash harder!”

Johnnie was surprised.
He knew well enough that Gabriel’s slash had been more than sufficient to cut through the wooden door, yet there was not a single scratch on it.

And he didn’t feel any magic on it.
He did not understand.

Gabriel’s face was dark with rage.
He hated it when people doubted his power.
He could tell the door was strange, but he was determined to slash it into pieces.
He gripped his sword with both hands, ran up to the door, and brought the sword down hard.

Mag looked to the door with surprise when he heard the first bang. Sounds like someone just punched the door.

Yabemiya turned to look.
“A customer?”

Sally shook her head.
“I don’t think so.” She looked to the door warily.

“I’ve finished learning!” said the system.
“And the door is under attack.
The defense system has been activated.
Any 3rd-tier attacks will be nullified.
Whenever the restaurant is under attack, the defense system will nullify the first three attacks for free, but every attack it nullifies after the first three will cost you 10,000 gold coins.”

“You’ve finished learning?” Mag asked.

“Yes, I’ve mastered all the different ways.”

“Good for you.
Anyway, you said the restaurant was defenseless against attacks, so where did this defense system come from?”

“I lied.
If you upgrade the restaurant to lv2, you’ll unlock many other rights, and the defense system will become stronger—it will even be able to warn you about any attack before it happens.”